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Description
The inquiry circle consists of 3 Ph.D. students at the University of Maryland College Park. This space will house briefs, articles, and relevant resources for our inquiry throughout the fall 2009 semester. This space also provides us with a place to record ongoing discussion that takes place between face-to-face meetings.

Face-to-Face meetings
The face-to-face meetings will be a time where each member will get to bring her current inquiry question to the group for discussion. The class members will rotate through two half-hour and a one-hour timeslot. The half-hour time slots will allow each member to provide an update and/or ask questions that are crucial and timely to their current research/coursework endeavors. The one-hour slot will allow for a more in-depth discussion about a specific issue.

Meeting will take place on the following dates from 10:30am-12:30pm:

Date	10:30-11:00	11:00-11:30	11:30-12:30
Sept. 9	Carla	Jill	Leslie
Sept. 16 (no C)	Leslie		Jill
Sept. 23 (no J)	Leslie		Carla
Oct. 7	Leslie	Carla	Jill
Oct. 21	Carla	Jill	Leslie
Nov. 4	Jill	Leslie	Carla
Nov. 18	Leslie	Carla	Jill
Dec. 2	TBD	TBD	TBD

Expectations
One week before the group meeting, each member will send the other group members a “brief” (approximately 1 pg.) about the question/issue they would like to discuss at the following week’s group meeting. The brief should include:

• The question or issue, concisely stated,
• Some context for members to better understand how the question or issue relates to your current work,
• A list of references/resources related to the question

The group member assigned to the longer time slot should additionally provide:

• An assigned reading that will help facilitate discussion about the question/issue
• A pdf and citation for this reading